Codex Ecclesia

INVOCATION

P: BRETHREN, THE HOUR HAS COME TO CELEBRATE

THE MASS OF THE HOLY GRAIL.

C: GLORY BE TO GOD!

P: MAY THE LORD GUARD OUR STEPS!

PROCESSIONAL HYMN

Everyone stands

P: LORD, WE CELEBRATE THIS MASS ESPECIALLY

FOR...N

EVERLIVING LORD OF LIFE, WE OPEN OUR EYES TO

THE GLORY OF THY SACRED, EVER-PRESENT AND INDWELLING

REALITY,

AND WE GATHER IN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ALL THY

HOSTS OF AWAKENED BEINGS, INVOKING THE

OVERLIGHTING PRESENCE OF ALL THY GREAT ONES

WHO SERVE THE DIVINE WILL AND WAY, AND WHO

INITIATE AND GUIDE ALL NATURE AND HUMANITY

THROUGH THY PROFOUND MYSTERIES OF INTERIOR

TRANSFORMATION AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION.

WE GATHER WITH YOU, FAITHFUL AND HOLY ONES

OF ALL GENERATIONS AND ALL WORLDS, TO ENACT

AND CELEBRATE THE ETERNAL MYSTERIES OF GOD

MOST HIGH, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THE JOYOUS

UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP OF ALL SOULS IN THE

LIGHT AND PEACE THAT PASSETH HUMAN

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UNDERSTANDING, WHICH IS KNOWN ONLY BY THE

HEART.

WE DRAW NEAR UNTO THY HEART, 0' LORD, AND

STAND WITH THEE AT THE CENTER OF ALL

UNIVERSES WHICH SURROUND US IN SEVEN

CONCENTRIC SPHERES REPRESENTING ALL PLANES,

ALL WORLDS, AND THE RADIANT AND LUMINOUS

SPACE OF ALL REALITY.

THIS IS THE DIVINE AEON OF AEONS, THE WORLD

THAT HAS BEEN, IS NOW, AND EVERMORE SHALL BE.

All sign  and say:

P & C: AMEN

ASPERGES

P: IN THE NAME OF CHRIST MELCHIZEDEK, BE YE

CLEANSED AND CONSECRATED FOR WORSHIP.

LAUDAMUS

C:

I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS,

FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP.

MY HELP COMETH EVEN FROM THE LORD,

WHO HATH MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH.

HE SHALL NOT SUFFER MY FOOT TO BE MOVED,

HE THAT KEEPETH ME, SLEEPETH NOT.

BEHOLD, HE THAT KEEPETH ISRAEL NEITHER

SLUMBERS NOR SLEEPS.

THE LORD HIMSELF IS MY KEEPER,

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THE LORD IS MY DEFENSE AND MY RIGHT HAND,

THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE ME FROM ALL EVIL.

YEA, IT IS EVEN HE THAT KEEPETH MY SOUL,

THE LORD PRESERVES MY GOING OUT AND MY

COMING IN, NOW AND FOR EVERMORE.

AMEN.

CONFITEOR

All kneel and say together

P & C:

O LORD OF LIFE, WHO DWELLS IN THE CENTER OF

OUR VERY BEING;

THOU HAST CREATED US TO BE IMMORTAL AND

MADE US TO BE AN IMAGE OF THINE OWN ETERNITY;

YET OFTEN WE FORGET THE GLORY OF OUR

HERITAGE AND WANDER FROM THE PATH WHICH

LEADS TO

RIGHTEOUSNESS;

BUT THOU, O LORD, HAST MADE US FOR THYSELF

AND OUR HEARTS ARE EVER RESTLESS TILL THEY

FIND THEIR REST IN THEE;

LOOK UPON US WITH THE EYES OF THY LOVE AND

FILL US WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE

EVERLASTING LIGHT,

THAT WE MAY BFCOME AN UNSPOTTED MIRROR OF

THY POWER;

AND THE IMAGE OF THY GOODNESS,

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THROUGH CHRIST OUR INDWELLING LORD.

AMEN.

ABSOLUTION

P:

IN THE NAME OF THE MYSTERY OF THE FULLNESS,

THAT HATH EXISTED BEFORE ALL BEGINNINGS;

ETERNAL AND REDEEMING LOGOS;

HOLY SPIRIT, CELESTIAL BRIDE AND REVEALER OF

THE CONCEALED MYSTERIES:

BE BLESSED  AND PURIFIED THAT YE MAY

OVERCOME THE POWERS OF THE ARCHONS OF THE

WORLD AND BE AS ONE.

KYRIE

P & C:

KYRIE ELEISON,

KYRIE ELEISON,

KYRIE ELEISON.

CHRISTE ELEISON,

CHRISTE ELEISON,

CHRISTE ELEISON.

KYRIE ELEISON,

KYRIE ELEISON,

KYRIE ELEISON.

SURSUM CORDA

All rise.

P: WE LIFT UP OUR HEARTS

C: WE LIFT UP OUR HEARTS

P: WE AWAKEN OURSELVES

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C: WE AWAKEN OURSELVES

P: WE EVOKE THE ETERNAL FLAME OF THE CHRIST

WITHIN.

C: WE EVOKE THE ETERNAL FLAME OF THE CHRIST

WITHIN.

P: WITH PRAISE AND WITH PRAYER SHALL OUR

TEMPLE BE BUILT!

C: TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY.

EXORDIUM

P: BRETHREN, UNTO YOU BE THE BEAUTY AND THE

GRACE.

C: AND MAY THE WORLD BE FILLED WITH THEIR

MYSTERY.

Congregation sits

P: THUS, SAYEST THE LOGOS: I AM A LAMP TO THEE

WHO SEEST ME.

C: AMEN.

P: I AM A MIRROR TO THEE WHO UNDERSTANDETH

ME.

C: AMEN.

P: I AM A DOOR TO THEE WHO KNOCKEST AT ME.

C: AMEN.

P: SEE THYSELF IN ME WHO SPEAKS AND WHEN

THOU HAST SEEN WHAT I DO, KEEP SILENCE ON MY

MYSTERIES. IN ME KNOW THOU THE WORD OF

WISDOM. WHAT I AM NOW SEEN TO BE, THAT I AM

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NOT; BUT WHAT I AM, THOU SHALT SEE WHEN

THOU COMEST.

C: AMEN.

P: BRETHREN, A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF

JESUS CHRIST.

C: GLORY BE TO GOD.

THE GOSPEL

The Gospel announced, all sign  Brow  Lips  Heart

All stand.

READER: HERE ENDETH THE READING.

C: PRAISE BE TO THEE, 0 CHRIST;

P: AND WITH OPEN HEARTS MAY YE PROCEED.